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Sheine Stein, 3, of Frederick died of 'accidental gunshot' to head, coroner rules

Boy shot with stepfather's gun

By Tony KindelspireLongmont Times-Call

Posted:
10/29/2013 11:41:18 AM MDT

Updated:
10/29/2013 04:40:23 PM MDT

Investigators from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Frederick Police Department enter a home on the 500 block of Pine Street Monday afternoon. A 3-year-old boy, identified as Sheine Steine, apparently shot himself in the head and died later that morning at Exempla Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette. The Weld County Coroner's Office has ruled the death accidental, although the investigation is continuing, according to Frederick police. (Matthew Jonas/Times-Call)

LONGMONT -- The 3-year-old child who died after apparently shooting himself in the head Monday morning inside his Frederick home has been identified as Sheine Steine, according to a statement issued Tuesday morning by Frederick police chief Gary Barbour.

Barbour said the Weld County Coroner's Office has completed its investigation and has concluded that Steine's death "was due to accidental gunshot wound to the head."

Frederick police were called to a home in the 500 block of Pine Street at about 9:45 a.m. Monday by Steine's mother, identified as Dione Warren, who said she believed the boy had fallen and struck something, as he was bleeding from the head. When authorities arrived and contacted the boy in the parents' upstairs bedroom, they discovered a handgun near the child that they believed had been fired and a blood pattern consistent with a gunshot wound.

Steine was taken to Exempla Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette where he was pronounced dead about 11:15 a.m., Barbour said.

"We have no reason to believe this was other than an accidental firing of the gun while the child handled it," Barbour said in the statement.

The gun, a .40-caliber Glock, belonged to the boy's stepfather, Jeremy McCollum, who was not at home at the time of the shooting, Barbour said.

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